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Biscuits
Baking Powder Biscuits
- 2 cups flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ¾-1 cup milk
- 2 tbsp. shortening
- 1 tsp. salt
Sift the dry ingredients together. Work the butter into the flour with a fork or tips of fingers. Add and mix the milk with the flour gradually, until the dough is soft enough to be handled easily. Put it on a floured board, and roll until ½-inch thick. Cut into rounds, place in pan, and bake in a hot (450 F) oeven for 10-15 minutes. Use as little flour as possible on the board when shaping the dough.
Bran Biscuits
- 1 cup bran flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 3 tsp. baking powder
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 tbsp. butter, or shortening
- ½ tsp. salt
Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Work the butter (or shortening) into the batter with a fork or knife; then add milk, mixing with a knife until you have a soft dough. Toss on a floured board, pat, and roll out lightly to ½-inch in thickness. Shape with a biscuit cutter. Place in a buttered pan and bake at 400 F for 10-15 minutes.
Cheese Biscuits
- 2 cups flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- ¾ cup American cheese, grated
- ¾-1 cup milk
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 1 tsp. salt
Sift the dry ingredients together. Rub butter into flour with a fork. Stir in the milk gradually, then add the cheese. Place on a floured board, roll gently to about ½-inch thick. Cut into rounds, placed on a greased pan, and bake in a 400 F oven for 10-15 minutes. Or, roll out the dough, dot with butter, sprinkly with grated cheese, roll up as for a jelly roll, but into 1-inch slices, and bake cut side down.
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